Tuesday 22 November 2016

My curiosity over the last few weeks has been swaying towards Loop Quantum Gravity (links below). Found this article with a visual representation and thought 'why have they put neurons on a.. oh...an example of micro-macro?' So I made:

  

Background: Interconnected Neurons in a culture dish
A fluorescence microscope reveals the largely random network, that neurons form in a culture dish. An international team of scientists investigated [for MPI] whether nerve cells in the brain wire randomly. © Manuel Schottdorf, MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization.

Foreground: Loop Quantum Gravity visual representation
In the loop models, the basic structure of space-time turns out to be discrete. In such discrete space-times, there are smallest values for volumes and areas that are not divisible any farther – just as one cannot build a structure smaller than the smallest block in a children's lego set. The fabric of space is called a spin network with lines and nodes, as pictured [above].

Loop Links:
Wiki's page.. uh, actually that's about as far as I've gotten yet, uh...

Here's a little collection of 101 videos for Quantum Mechanics and Physics:
Oxford, J.J. Binney If you can stand the hissing audio this guy is very common sense.
IIT Madras, Prof V.Balakrishnan 2008 This guy is amazing (for the curious layman; just roll with some of the maths, he'll explain in different terms as you go) he's funny too.. my personal favourite  /gush

Add: the article which introduced me to the concept.

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